New Study Finds Subsidizing Transit Actually Makes It More Efficient

dudinax , 4 months ago

Hmm, more people ride cheap highly available transport!

Nachorella , 4 months ago

And here I was thinking defunding it would yield the biggest improvements. Astonishing

ObviouslyNotBanana , 4 months ago

No way!

SnotFlickerman , 4 months ago

This Just In: When cities are given more money for transit, they surprisingly do actual research on where transit is needed and add transit routes where it is needed and will actually be used.

Pundits everywhere gasp in shock because like the gaslighting pricks they are they assumed everyone is a giant piece of shit like themselves who would piss away money on projects so they could slide more money into their own pockets. They assume everyone is a violently anti-social loser like themselves, and cannot possibly conceive of the idea that people in government jobs actually use their educations to, you know, do their fucking jobs.

I’m shocked, shocked, that the pundits were lying.

Well, not that shocked.

dantheclamman OP , 4 months ago

The Cato Institute hates this one weird trick

FenrirIII , 4 months ago

New York spent theirs on more roads

iopq , 4 months ago

Where my dad lives, the bus doesn’t sync with the train. You get to the stop, the train comes and you’re not allowed to cross while it’s in the station. So you actually can’t make the train unless you get off one stop early and run for it to enter the station from the other side

And people wonder why public transit is not as popular

BreakDecks , 4 months ago

What kind of wait are we looking at for the next train? 10 minutes? A day?

iopq , 4 months ago

Next train is in 10 minutes, but doesn’t stop at that station. Train after that stops at every stop, so it would take you 70 minutes to get up to the city.

Basically, from home to where I want to go, minimum two hours (let’s not forget public transit after the train). A cab would take me 45 minutes (but also like $80)